You've said it a few times, he's always wanting to walk into a post match presser and the interviewer to go "so, why did you make that tactical decision, you bloody genius" then he can beem and be like "Listen, this is what we work on week in week out, i'm not just a cabbage faced ****ing ******, I'm actually a paid football manager " but really he IS just a fat cabbage faced ****ing ******. That's what's so sad.
You all seem to forget we have been playing this way for 4years now. There’s large parts of this squad who are either incapable of playing any other way or were so indoctrinated in the style that they cant change back. The only difference between now and the Rafa years are we make more mistakes at the back.
True but I look at the front four for Rafa when we came back up and we were relying on Richie, Atsu, Mitrovic, Perez, Joselu, etc (at an average of £6m per player) and now we've got Wilson, Joelinton, Almiron and ASM (at an average of £25m per player). Rafa would still be playing a conservative style but there also an element of cutting your cloth accordingly, to compare wholly is unfair, the last few months when we had Almiron, Perez and Rondon we looked very very good. Currently we have an exciting forward line (not amazing but mid-table comfortably I'd say) and Bruce has seemingly ostricised ASM and doesn't play Almiron in the way it would seem sensible. Joelinton is a good support player but everything is just being humped onto Wilson it seems. We'll do ok this season (11-15th) but an injury to Wilson and suddenly we're toothless.
Well yeah, that and the fact we have less shots on target, less possession, less chances, worse pass completion, concede more, have more injuries and have a cabbage face as a manager.
It's such a simple fix though to play attacking football. Back 4 of your choice. Hayden infront of them. Miggy and Shelvey/Longstaff infront of Hayden and then Wilson being fed by two ASM/Joelinton/Fraser. Even in a 442 you push miggy/joelinton off Wilson and have the other on the opposite flank to Fraser and then use ASM and Gayle as an impact subs to run at tired teams. Would take 2 weeks to geet them in shape and tactically aware of the new formation. The only bit of sympathy for Bruce I have is that none of the front 4 have been fit at the same time but would he play them if they were? I'm not sure he would, think we'd more likely end up with Carroll and Ritchie on the pitch instead.
Has Bruce not caught Covid yet? He has lost the dressing room and clearly a lot of players do not want to play for him. The ****.
